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- 1Modern hobbies are tame compared to some of the things people got up to in the past.Tame = soft
"Get up to" = to be interested in - 2These days, everyone knows how to tinker with photographs to make them look differentTinker = funileiro
Tinker = fazer funilaria, mexer, alterar - 3Trick photography goes back many years before the days of Photoshop.Trick = pegadinha, modificado
Tricky = com pegadinha - 4Back in the late 1800s, when photography was in its infancyInfancy = in an early period (things, not people)
- 5Doctors told him to avoid exerting himselfExert = Fazer muito esforço
- 6Otherwise serious family portraits would feature a typical family in their best Sunday clothes, except that the father would be wielding an axeWield = to hold (a gun, for example)
Axe = machado
Axe (verb) = reduce - 7Mother would be headless and a child would be holding mama’s head aloft/ We held our glasses aloftAloft = in the air (holding it)
- 8Judging by the sheer number of such pictures out thereSheer = complete, absolute, pure
- 9It was a pretty common fad a century or so ago/ There was a fad for wearing ripped jeansFad = moda (See "hype")
Ripped = rasgado - 10The today’s free-time pursuits seem positively tame compared to those of our ancestorsPursuit = what is being looked for
Pursue (verb) - 11—
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- Idiomas Inglês Flashcards on Isadora, created by Teachers Thaiana and Thiago on 24/11/2022.
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